Device for hanging clothes, such as trousers or skirts

ABSTRACT

Device for hanging clothes comprising a hanging deformable wire structure with a central hook element of suspension and two arms carrying means to grip the clothes, by elasticity of the deformable wire structure, in which said means are mounted sliding on the arms of the device, along which they may translate with possibility to be locked on the arms themselves in any suitable selected position.

United States Patent Campagnolo 1 July 29, 1975 [54] DEVICE FOR HANGINGCLOTHES, SUCH 1,605,184 11/1926 Heddens 223/95 AS TROUSERS 0 SKIRTS2,350,859 6/1944 Reckow Tullio Campagnolo, 36100 Vicenza, Corso Padova;168, Italy Filed: July 17, 1973 Appl. No.: 380,055

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Foreign Application Priority Data July 31, 1972 Italy 27682/72References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 8/1920 Gibbs 223/95 PrimaryExaminer-George H. Krizmanich Attorney, Agent, or FirmStevens, Davis,Miller 8L Mosher [57] ABSTRACT Device for hanging clothes comprising ahanging deformable wire structure with a central hook element ofsuspension and two arms carrying means to grip the clothes, byelasticity of the deformable wire structure, in which said means aremounted sliding on the arms of the device, along which they maytranslate with possibility to be locked on the arms themselves in anysuitable selected position.

3 Claims, 5 Drawing Figures DEVICE FOR HANGING CLOTHES, SUCH AS TROUSERSOR SKIRTS BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention Thepresent invention relates to an elastically expanding clothes hangingdevice, of the type comprising a hanging deformable structure of wire,shaped so as to provide at the two sides of a central hook element ofsuspension, two slanting branches diverging downward and extending intotwo arms pointing in opposite directions and lying on the same plane,said arms carrying means adapted to grip the clothes on correspondingopposite parts of the same.

2. Description of the Prior Art In the already known devices of thistype, the gripping means for the garment to be hung have always beenmounted fixed at the free ends of said arms or apt, at the best, toslightly oscillate thereon, and this provided a considerable drawback inthat, in order to adapt the clothes hanger to the dimensions of thegarment to be hung, one could merely rely on the elasticity of thedeformable structure of the device. If this was more than sufficient insome cases, it determined in other cases as may be easily understood, anoverstress on the parts of the garment held by the gripping means of thedevice, or else it prevented the garment from being hung.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Such drawbacks are fully eliminated by thehanging device according to the present invention, characterized in thatthe means adapted to grip the garments are mounted sliding on the armsof the device, along which they may translate with possibility to belocked on the arms themselves in any suitable selected position.

Preferably, the said gripping means, formed by fork or tongue elements,outwardly notched, are mounted by providing in the head of such means atransversal through hole for receiving the arm of the device and alongitudinal dead hole apt to house an outwardly threaded pin on whichis screwed a wing nut, said pin having a transversal hole which alsoreceives the arm of the device.

The invention will now be described in detail with reference to apreferred embodiment thereof, shown in the accompanying drawings, inwhich:

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a general view of the deviceaccording to the invention;

FIG. 2 shows a device like that of FIG. 1, acting as trouser-hanger;

FIG. 3 shows in detail the mounting of the garments gripping meansenlarged and with some parts in section; and

FIGS. 4 and 5 are front views of the gripping means, suitablerespectively for the device of FIG. 2, acting as trouserhanger, and forsimilar device, acting as skirthanger.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS With reference to the drawings,the device according to the present invention comprises a structure in asingle piece of elastically deformable wire, apt to be hanged,comprising a hook element 1 of suspension,

from the two sides of which two slanting branches 2, 3 diverge downwardsextending, after forming small loops 4, 5 for engagement by the fingersof a hand, into arms 6, 7, pointing in opposite directions and lying onthe same plane, said arms 6, 7 carrying means 8, apt to grip thegarments.

According to the invention, the garments gripping means 8 comprise ahead 9, mounted onto the arms 6, 7, and actual gripping parts connectedto the head and pointing downwards, said parts comprising, in the caseof trouser-hangers (FIGS. 2 and 4), forks 10 having a notched outer edge(11), and in the case of skirthangers (FIGS. 3 and 5), a tongue or pin12 also with a notched outer edge.

The head 9 of such elements comprises a solid body having a transversalthrough hole 13, into which penetrates, the arm 7 (or the arm 6) of thedevice. The head 9 can slide along the said arm in both directions. Thesolid body of the head 9 comprises also a longitudinal dead hole 14,which is apt to house a pin 15, projecting with its threaded end fromthe upper part of the head 9 and being provided, at its opposite end,with a transversal through hole 18 in which is inserted the arm 7 (orthe arm 6) of the device, as clearly shown in FIG. 3. The gripping meansare completed by a wing nut 16 which screws onto the threaded part ofthe pin 15.

Obviously, in use, when the wing nut 16 is loose or is loosened, thehead 9 is free to slide along the arm 7 (or the arm 6), and to bebrought or arranged in the wanted position, in which it may be easilylocked firmly by merely tightening the wing nut 16, which brings intocontrast the various parts of the head 9 with the arm 7 (or the arm 6).

Though simple in conception and easy to carry out, the inventionprovides sure and remarkable advantages in the field of clothes hangers.of the type involved, in that it allows to suitably choose the distancebetween the garments gripping means, according to the articles ofclothing to be hung and to their size, and to adapt this distance to thesize of the garments, so that such garments may be hung by imparting anelastic action sufficient to keep the garment safely suspended (andeventually, well stretched and. in shape), but not high to such anextent that it will damage the garment itself or that it will anyhowmake its insertion in the device difficult. In this way, it is possibleto use the same hanging device for different types and sizes of trousersor skirts (or other garments), with evident practical and economicadvantages, by merely providing to adjust the gripping means of thedevice itself whenever switching from one garment to the other.

I claim:

1. A device for hanging clothes comprising a hanging deformable wirestructure defining two slanting branches diverging downwardly andextending into two arms pointing in opposite directions which lie in thesame plane and gripping means slidably mounted and lockable on each ofsaid arms, each said gripping means comprising an element outwardlynotched, a head attached to said element having a transverse throughhole for receiving one of said arms and a longitudinal threaded deadhole, an outwardly threaded pin fitting within said dead hole having atransverse hole for receiving one of said arms and a winged nutthreadably mounted on said threaded pin.

2. The device of claim 1 in which said notched element is in the shapeof a tongue.

3. The device of claim 1 in which said notched element is in the shapeof a fork.

1. A device for hanging clothes comprising a hanging deformable wirestructure defining two slanting branches diverging downwardly andextending into two arms pointing in opposite directions which lie in thesame plane and gripping means slidably mounted and lockable on each ofsaid arms, each said gripping means comprising an element outwardlynotched, a head attached to said element having a transverse throughhole for receiving one of said arms and a longitudinal threaded deadhole, an outwardly threaded pin fitting within said dead hole having atransverse hole for receiving one of said arms and a winged nutthreadably mounted on said threaded pin.
 2. The device of claim 1 inwhich said notched element is in the shape of a tongue.
 3. The device ofclaim 1 in which said notched element is in the shape of a fork.